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Re: Running public DNS server on iSeries

You are right, the dynamic DNS does require a client but it think it will run in PASE (they mention a unix client which *should* run in PASE). I think PASE is required for DNS on the iSeries anyway. They have a perl script and some source code for windows.

Looking at it, you might be able to write your own client. I might even take a crack at it.

Not sure you'd need the client though, unless the iSeries only gets a dynamically assigned IP address from your ISP.

Client works great for Windows though.

Pete


Neil Palmer/DPS wrote:

Pete,

Do you use them for a static or dynamic DNS ? Their site appears to say you need a client to change the IP address, but of course the client code isn't going to run on a iSeries.

...Neil




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We have been using everydns.net and it has been flawless. A small donation is all it takes to configure as many domains as you want.

It also supports dynamic dns for those folks who can't get a static IP address yet want to host a domain.

If you are looking for simple, cheap and effective DNS service you should check them out as well.


Pete Helgren


Neil Palmer/DPS wrote:



I think the following is possible, though maybe not advisable. Any comments?

Have a customer switching ISP's from one who was providing DNS service to




one who won't (because the latter has DSL and the former is only ISDN).
They only have one system, the iSeries, behind a firewall. I was wondering about running a DNS server on the iSeries for their public domain, and seting the firewall to forward DNS port 53 traffic to the internal address of their iSeries. Is this possible? (May be an issue there too in that the internal DNS address for their domain should

resolve

to a 192.168.x.x address, so maybe that's a showstopper right there). I'm




thinking I'd be better off signing them up with one of the free DNS service providers.


Also, DNS on port 53 uses only TCP. not UDP - is that right?

...Neil








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